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🗓️ 14 October 2022
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0:00.0 | The Deadliest Man Alive. I'm Rebecca Lieb. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town. |
0:19.4 | If you look through pages of a comic book in the 1970s, you probably came across and add for |
0:24.8 | The Deadliest Man Alive. The ad said he was the supreme grandmaster of the Black Dragon Fighting |
0:30.9 | Society. And he sold a book for a mere five dollars. You could learn dimmock aka the death touch. |
0:39.4 | This is the strange tale of martial arts and con master Count Dante. John Timothy Kean |
0:47.5 | was born in Beverly Chicago in 1939 to a very well off Irish American family. From a young age, |
0:53.2 | John had the world at his fingertips. But I doubt most people would be able to guess where his |
0:58.2 | life would go from there. He started boxing at a young age continuing through high school. Before |
1:03.8 | he joined the marine reserves and then the army where he got his first taste of martial arts |
1:08.0 | and John was hooked. He got his black belt in karate and then became a sensei himself before |
1:13.9 | he became the Midwest director of the USKA or the United States Karate Association. John had |
1:19.8 | bigger and better dreams though. So he left the association to help create the World Karate |
1:24.6 | Federation. But he didn't like that either. So he founded another organization called the World |
1:30.4 | Karate Federation not to be confused with the last two. It's like a thing to talk about. You're |
1:35.6 | just sorting words around and then what is it? It's all a burrito. Yeah. So once he was done creating |
1:42.8 | and leaving and creating organizations, John set his sights on reinventing martial arts. |
1:47.6 | Exactly what martial arts is all about. It's not a time-tested tradition perfected by many, many |
1:53.1 | people across generations. Just start a new. Yeah. And things, you know, evolve. Look at the UFC |
2:01.2 | and mixed martial arts. Like things evolve and people find ways to make the something old new or |
2:07.6 | takes a little of this and the little of that put it together. But I think he was like there's |
2:11.7 | going to be no evolution. It's going to just start right now. He had enough of all the ceremonies |
2:16.5 | and traditions that are integral to most martial arts. Yeah. Which I get a little bit. Sometimes |
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